Fernando Elijovich Early Career Clinician Scientist Award

The Fernando Elijovich Early Career Clinician Scientist Award recognizes an early career clinician/clinician scientist who manages hypertensive patients and is an active investigator working in hypertension or cardiovascular research who has significantly contributed to our understanding of the causes or treatments of hypertension and related cardiovascular disease. This award is named after Dr. Fernando Elijovich, an academic internist and hypertension specialist who enhanced our understanding of hypertension through benchtop and clinical research, particularly on sodium handling and salt-sensitivity of blood pressure. He was also a lifelong active member of the council dedicated to the training of the next generation of translational researchers and hypertension specialists.